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August 12,
2008
Wind Beneath My Wings
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Thoughts from Sister Patricia
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Quote for the Day:
Prayer is nothing else than union with God.
In this intimate union God and the soul are like
two pieces of wax molded into one;
they cannot anymore be separated.
It is a very wonderful thing,
this union of God with his
insignificant creature,
a happiness passing all understanding.
St. John Vianney
Quote from the book, "101 Inspirational Stories of the Power of Prayer"
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Wednesday
First of all, if anyone wants to join in with my addiction to online puzzles - the site I like the best is Jigzone Last night I called it Zigzone.. but it's supposed to be JigZone.... a jig not a zig.
http://www.jigzone.com
I like it because they have lots and lots of puzzles and different categories of skill. From six pieces to 247. Sometimes on Sunday I will pick a puzzle and start with the six piece and see how high up I can go. Once or twice I actually did the 247 but those pieces are really too tiny on a computer screen to bother with.. and of course very rarely do I have that kind of patience anyway!
I would like to share with you a huge breakthrough I discovered for myself a little bit ago. I have been reading a book called, ["Finding Your Way Home" - Freeing the Child Within and discovering wholeness in the Functional Family of God] (as you probably know I'm slightly unfunctional so these books are important to me). Anyway it is a very good book. It was talking about the three different ways that we sometimes handle other people in unhealthy ways.
1. Controllers
2. Rescuers
3. Victim
Well, the first two ways - I've found myself doing lots of time.. BUT I never thought of myself as going the "Victim" route. Well, lo and behold... all of a sudden - something clicked and I thought. THAT"S IT! For the last few weeks I've been feeling pressured (no doubt from all the preparations for St. Clare, book, internet, radio, life) and feeling on the high side of grumpy about the whole thing. Then through different stuff I have been working through - the answer suddenly came. The reason I am angry is because I am feeling that someone else put me in this position. I'm dealing with stuff that other people have planned for me. And Guess What? Nope. All this stuff is the result of choices I have made.
Most of the time when I am angry or upset about something it comes from stuff within. On good days things don't faze me a bit... but on bad days.... it's "Ready on the right, ready on the left, Fire!"
So its seems the exact opposite - that anger and frustration at others comes from being a victim (or thinking one is) but it really is. When I realize that "Hey, I made these choices" "This is stuff that I chose to do." Then all of a sudden it makes perfect sense that the person who can change all this "IF" they want to—is ME!
Not too sure if I am getting this across - but when I realized that I was dealing with pressures that were self-inflicted - the pressure sort of evaporated! It was like, "Oh yeah, I did want to do that!"
It was my choice to become a Poor Clare.
It was my choice to work on the Internet.
It was my choice to do radio.
It was my choice to write books.
It was like... Oh my gosh, I am so in control - even though I feel out of control!
People who are victims feel that there is nothing to do - but complain, moan and groan and endure. People who are not victims do the same stuff but FEEL very different about it. Isn't that interesting? Now we shall see if I stop complaining? Time will tell on that one! I think maybe complaining has gotten to be a habit.
Blessings of Peace and All Good!
Sister Patricia
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Celeste D. Lovett
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Throughout my teen years I lived with undiagnosed anxiety, panic attacks, and depression. My mother and many in her family were also stricken with these sorts of problems, and she personally suffered from depression, panic attacks, and agoraphobia. She had been raised to believe that everyone experienced life this way, and that people simply learned to tolerate it in different ways.
My mother leaned heavily upon the Sisters of the Precious Blood, a cloistered monastery in New Hampshire. She often went to see them and wrote to them and continues to do so.
In 1973, nearing my high school graduation, I was working in a mill and still battling anxiety and depression. My mother requested prayers for me, and the sisters kindly sent me a letter with some prayer cards, which I had opened but not yet read.
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The Lord is gracious and merciful,
slow to anger and of great kindness.
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and compassionate toward all his works.
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From today's readings:
“Then the cherubim lifted their wings, and the wheels went along with them, while up above them was the glory of the God of Israel.... The glory of the Lord is higher than the skies.... Jesus said to His disciples: ‘If your brother sins against you, go and tell him his fault between you and him alone.’ ”
Bad News for Jerusalem
Be brave and read Ezekiel through Chapter Ten! Before the big screen and special effects, I can hardly think of anything that would have made a more unforgettable impression than the book of Ezekiel. Even now, if we take them seriously as “the word of the Lord,” Ezekiel’s visions are even more haunting than all the wizardry of Hollywood.
Jerusalem was destroyed by Babylon in 587BC, the beginning of the “Babylonian captivity.” However, the city was only razed to the ground that year as a punitive measure - Jerusalem had actually already surrendered to the Babylonians 10 years earlier, but then had reneged on sacred covenant oaths that had reduced the whole kingdom of Judah to a Babylonian vassal state.
Ezekiel’s prophecy begins in the year 593BC. He and a good portion of the upper class had already been exiled to Babylon at the time of the surrender in 597BC. Thus, when Ezekiel began his work among the exiles in Babylon, Jerusalem was still standing, so the prophet, with his gruesome visions of the impending destruction of Jerusalem, would have come across as an alarmist and killjoy.
Chapter Eight recounts how Ezekiel was taken in a vision from Babylon to Jerusalem, and was thus able to witness the atrocities, perfidies, and idolatries occurring there. Chapters Nine and Ten then relate the chastisement of the unfaithful city, even including the chilling detail of God’s glory abandoning the Temple in Jerusalem. This was significant, because, as was noted a few weeks ago, the inhabitants of Jerusalem took God so much for granted, that they had started to consider Him their “Genie of Invincibility” - false prophets convinced the crowds that no matter what immoralities they stooped to, the Temple of the Lord was their unconditional guarantee that almighty God would always be with them to save them and protect them from all their enemies. So Ezekiel’s dire news was rejected at first, but when the events came to pass, Ezekiel’s message was finally recognized as true prophecy.
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